Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Malaysia Thursday at a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The meeting put the Russia-Ukraine war at the center of a trip that was meant to strengthen alliances in Southeast Asia.

Russia launched a major drone and missile strike on Kyiv, killing two and injuring more than a dozen, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to call for additional funding for